Why Senator Bernie Sanders lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton.

The leadership of Nicolás Maduro has brought Venezuela to the verge of revolution as its mismanaged economy collapses.

America's ten most (and least) religious states, compared.

A quick look at the electoral results and circumstances of every US presidential election since 1964.

By 2050, the number of Muslims around the world will nearly equal the number of Christians, as Islam will grow faster than any other major world religion.

Every mass shooting (4+ people shot) in the United States in 2015, mapped.

Researchers have discovered the most similar planet yet to Earth, 1,400 light-years away. Kepler-452b orbits its star in 385 days, just 20 days longer than our own year. Its star is just 4% larger, a billion and a half years older, and...

Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world’s largest...

An ethically questionable new genetic technique attempts to grow human organs inside of pigs.

The many lies and truths told by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the first 2016 U.S. presidential debate.

An examination of the European Migration Crisis.

Hong Kong and Shenzhen are each racing to finish multi-billion dollar mega-bridges across the Pearl River Delta to take advantage of inexpensive land and labor costs on the western side.

China will rapidly expand its nuclear energy production over the next 15 years as part of an all-of-the-above energy push to meet its people's insatiable demand for electricity.

South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion...

Scientists have confirmed Albert Einstein's 100 year-old theory of gravitational waves, detected using a massive system of instruments called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).

From the refugee crisis to a US presidential campaign featuring Donald Trump and everything in between, this is a look back at the headlines that dominated the news in 2015.

The Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is trying to buy an island from either Italy or Greece that can hold more than 100,000 refugees fleeing violence in places like Syria.

A look at marijuana laws across the United States.

China’s “One Belt, One Road” project is a massive plan to build roads, railways, ports, and power plants in over 60 countries to boost trade and global influence. While the initiative may help underdeveloped nations with new...

The Russian scandal swirling around President Donald Trump makes one thing clear: we have entered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our Republic. Michael Flynn — Trump’s now-disgraced former National Security Advisor — is...

Deep sea mining, seafloor vents, underwater drones, bioluminescent sharks, and the disturbing effects of ocean acidification highlight the near future of oceanographic discovery.

Identify tick species using AI and CNNs to reduce risk of tick-borne diseases.

Whitey Bulger's life played out like a Martin Scorsese film, and certainly, the legendary mobster and his exploits have been well documented in movies and television alike. The eccentric gangster grew up on the streets of Boston in the...

Jennifer Carol Wilbanks, forever immortalized as the real life runaway bride, made headlines in 2005 when she vanished from Duluth, Georgia – just days before her 600-person wedding – and again when she resurfaced in Albuquerque, New...